Rowland Falconer KirksMajor General, United States ArmyPublic Official

Roland
F. Kirks was a former member of the D.C. Board of Education, 1953 to 1962.
he died at Walter Reed Hospital of cancer. He retired after 35 years of
military service. Born in Washington and graduated from Virginia Military
Institute. Received a bachelor's and master's degrees in law from the National
University.He was assistant professor of law there while earing a doctorate
of judicial science.

A cavalry officer, called to active duty in
WWII, and was sent to Europe as the 9 th Army's chief of combat intelligence.
He also was chief of foreign trade at headquarters of the United States
Groupe Control for Germany. After the war he returned to National University
as a professor of law. He became dean of the law school in 1949 and president
of the university in 1953,left the University in 1954 to become legislative
counsel for the National Automobile Dealers Association. He left that organization
in 1960,and for the next ten tears was general counsel and director
of government relations of the American Texile manufacturers
Institute.

Paula
Lucy Delosh, November 2006
Rowland Falconer Kirks was born 15 November 1914 and
died on 2 November 1977. At the time of his death he was the Director
of the Administrative Office of United States Courts. In the military,
he was the first commander of the 97th Army Reserve Command.

In 1970, the Supreme Court selected Rowland
F. Kirks to be the fourth Director of the AO. Kirks changed the alignment
of divisions in the Administrative Office (of the United States Courts)
to offer better service to the courts and to the Conference, added new
divisions, and continued the close relationship with the FJC (Federal Judicial
Cetner) that Friesen had established. After more than seven years in office,
Director Kirks became ill and died.

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ROWLAND F. KIRKS, 62, WAS HEAD OF U.S. COURTS
OFFICE

WASHINGTON, November 2, 1977 – Rowland F. Kirks,
director of the Administrative Office of the United States Courts, died
this morning in Walter Reed Hospital. He was 62 years old and had
been ill for a long time.

Chief Justice Warren E. Burger, who named him
to the post seven years ago, called Mr. Kirks’ death “a great loss to the
judicial system.” At a time of great stress in the Federal Courts,
Mr. Burger said, Mr. Kirk’s “innovative leadership enabled the system to
function in the face of great handicaps.”

Mr. Kirks served at various times as Army intelligence
officer, a lawyer, a law school dean and university president, an assistant
Attorney General and a legislative representative for the National Automotive
Dealers Association and the American Textile Manufacturers Institute.

Survivors include his wife, the former Virginia
Louise Potter, whom he married in 1940; a daughter, Virginia; a son, Rowland
2nd and his mother, Mrs. Ellis F. Kirks.

Virginia Military Institute:

Rowland F. Kirks ’35 Memorial Scholarship (F)The Kirks Scholarship was established in 1980
by the friends and family of the late Rowland Falconer Kirks ’35. Mr. Kirks
served as commanding general of the 97th U.S. Army Reserve Command and
Director of the Administrative Office of the United States Courts
Posted:
7 September 2003 Updated: 2 January 2006 Updated: 2 December 2006 Updated:
14 June 2007 Updated: 10 January 2008